A methane leak sparked an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran, killing at least 19 people and injuring another 17, ...

Sidewalks once teeming with tents, tarps and people passed out next to heaps of trash have largely disappeared from great ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s interim police commissioner revealed late Saturday that federal authorities had executed ...

Marxist-leaning lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake leads early official results in Sri Lanka’s presidential election, according to tallies released on Sunday by the ...

Facing a swirl of conflicts and crises across a fragmented world, leaders attending this week’s annual U.N. gathering are being challenged: Work together — not only on ...

When film star James Stewart went on location in 1948 at Stateville prison’s notorious roundhouse while portraying a Chicago newspaper reporter whose work freed a ...

Israeli troops raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera in the Israeli-occupied West Bank early Sunday, ordering the bureau to shut down amid ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs created a hit-making empire with big name performers, earning his place as a savvy music mogul and ...

Authorities in Congo said they released 600 prisoners in the country’s main prison on Saturday as part of a process aimed at ...

Hundreds of paratroopers dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands on Saturday to ...

Just two years ago, leading anti-abortion activists were euphoric as the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ...

The effort to save the pale blue dot called Earth is all about the green — that is, the money to finance a transition to ...